Korean drummer goes in harder than PHIL COLLINS when he had hair.
Come to think of it, Korean drummer’s hair acting > PHIL COLLINS acting.
link via Mighty Healthy nightlife blog – CrazySteezyo
Archive for May, 2008
?uestlove, Step Yo’ Hair Game Up!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008The Ten Albums I Will Take On The Mothership…
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
‘Cuz when you gotta go, you gotta go.
Since today is the moment of truth for me here at XXL mag dot com I pulled down this drop that I have been holding in the “Drafts” queue for over a year. Rarely do you have the opportunity to leave someplace with your dignity fully intact. I am thankful for the chance I have had to politic with you all.
I keep these ten albums in a backpack by the front door so that when my spaceship calls me I can just grab them up and get on board. See you all on the internets…
Only Built For Cuban Linx – The G.O.A.T. rap album, even ahead of that NaS joint. OB4CL > all trap-rap gangster fantasy lifestyle records. All of them.
The Low End Theory – There are too many Native Tongue albums to choose from. What sealed the deal for me was that this is the joint that ‘Scenario’ was on.
Fear Of A Black Planet – Public Enemy would chop fifty samples to make ONE track. You would need an entire office of ASCAP lawyers to do that shit today. The Bomb Squad irrevocably shifted the soundscape of pop music. Chuck D is the most hardbody rhymer of all time.
Giant Steps – My favorite Coltrane album that helps me focus. When I am sitting awake in my apartment at 5am and I am writing shit until my fingers tighten up in a diabetic arthritic knot I think about ‘Trane and his resilience. There is definitely something better on the other side.
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted – The only rap album I could ever recite from front to back.
Graduation – This CD was built for space travel. Bring your own robot though.
Ready To Die – Thank GOD that he is already dead. I would hate for his legacy to be tarnished by a voicebox vocoder single with Diddy on the hook.
Chameleon – The group LaBelle were like Sirenes mashed up with the intensity of the Stygian witches and the beauty of the Supremes. When Nona Hendryx wrote the line “nobody seems to mind that the water is rising high” in 1975 for ‘Who’s Watching The Watcher?’ I thought that these ladies had time traveled to New Orleans 2005. If you don’t know about these three fierce bitches, now you know.
Innervisions – Copp this album. Not now, right now. ‘Too High’, ‘Living For The City’, ‘All In Love Is Fair’, ‘Higher Ground’. This album is ALL hits.
Mothership Connection – How are you going to get on the mothership without this classic album? Swing down sweet chariot and let me ride.
The i.C.’s: CHECK MATE
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
How is it that everything has to revolve around me? I have some major issues.
Last year on my bornday the iNternets Celebrities brain trust (RAFI, CAS and I) were having an e-mail convo and CAS broached the idea of shooting a movie about check cashing spots after Rafi spotted a comment at Oh Word suggesting that. As usual we all agree that we will do it, but the truth is that our daily schedules don’t easily facilitate our filmmaking desires. As I re-read that thread I kind of laugh to myself because the movie we ended up creating is expressed in that e-mail.
Check cashing locations are necessary evils in poor neighborhoods. They provide the services that banks are unwilling and incapable of generating. The check cashing locations keep poor people on the economic grid.
RAFI and I are somewhat idiot savants in that even though we are both writers we have a hard time delivering outlines and scripts to CASIMIR for discussion. We generally like to meet up beforehand and figure out our locations then just go in and start shooting and let the discovery of the moment guide us. That’s easy work for RAFI and I. For CAS, not so much. He has hours of tape stock to upload and review. I don’t envy his workload.
The following film you are about to go in on is from several days of shooting. CAS and I did a scout reel first as we rolled around Bushwick, Brooklyn. We brought in IAN SAVAGE for the the first day of hard shooting in and around Bushwick. IAN rolled with us up in Utah at the Sundance Film Festival. The third day of filming we indoctrinated JOSH WEISBROT to the i.C. collective as we drove around Downtown Brooklyn. Many hours of film footage went into this short video.
Chea goes out to BEN POPKEN from Consumerist dot com, CLAY RAIDER gave us some real talk. He is a dude we chopped it up with outside of the Taj Mahal of check cashing spots. Shout to VeE from Scritch and Scratch for supplying some sketches for the visuals. ELI KETER does the music and you really need to show him some respect when the horns blow in. ‘Bodega’ has been a wildly successful film for us and we recently won the judges honorable mention at the Paul Robeson Film Festival at the Newark Museum (come out and check us at the screenings in July). ‘Checkmate’ is even better. Word to Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
“Cash rules everything around me. C.R.E.A.M. get the money, dollar dollar bill y’all!”
BlackBerry >>> iPhone
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The debate rages on as to which is a better device. The fake computer telephone or the fake telephone computer.
I personally fucks with Research In Motion’s BlackBerry. My cellphone service provider doesn’t offer iPhones anyhoo. As a matter of fact, my cellphone service provider, T-Mobile, refused to fix my BlackBerry device even though it was still under its first year warranty. The call center claims that the phone has been water damaged. That my friends, is a bullshit scam. The only moisture on my phone has been the perspiration from placing the phone on my face to talk into it. I should start a class action lawsuit against RIM and T-Mobile for the face cancer I will develop.
Anyhoo…
My BlackBerry screen is cracked diagonally yet I still post drops to this blog and even over at XXL. Try that shit with an iPhone. Its not possible since you have all this functionality embedded on the touch screen. Can the iPhone survive the real life mobile telecommunication device travails? I doubt it. But everyone wants the iPhone because it is sooooo sexy. Also because Apple Computers are markers of an affluent lifestyle. You somehow appear to be environmentally conscious even though their devices prA’li use more Coltan than the average. Your Apple Computers telephone is singlehandedly funding civil war in Africa.
At the end of the day there really isn’t any difference between the RIM BlackBerrys or the Apple iPhones. What matters is which device enables you to be your most productive. If you are concerned about which device makes the best looking accessory then you aren’t really into getting too much work done.
SPANK WHAT YA’ MAMA GAVE YA’…
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The question came up the other day between RAFI and I who we could attach the blame to for hipster rap.
People that look to KanYe’s cousins like Kid Cudi or Spank Rock are very mistaken. Pharell and the N.E.R.D. movement were definitely in the house but the act that was onstage was Luther Campbell and the 2 Live Crew.
What group better describes the ethos of cheap beer and cheaper thrills all while wearing your Cazal frames and a trucker hat? The simple call and response lyrics and the booming bassline were Luke Skyywalker standards.
Did Luke turn the music industry on its ear so thoroughly that even now his name is only mentioned in hushed whispers? Someone been done need to have given that man his own reality show. Shit can’t possibly get worse than the jig nonsense that Flavor Flav in waist deep in. Deep waste I meant to say.
I have yet to catch a Spank Rock set but all the music reviewers claim he is the new millenium Luke show. If Spank Rock can get quiet girls to bring their inner freak out then I ain’t mad at him, but he is going to have to take his ass chants to another level if he wants to compete with Luke’s Federal indictments.